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Description
Plates in: Photographs, Strawberry Dam, Philadelphia Ditch, original construction, 1912-1916, photograph album, page 17-18, 24, 26. View 1 (2010-0191). The rock quarry open, showing the model 20 Marion steam shovel loading a train of three 4 cu. yd. construction cars. Aug. 18, 1913 -- view 2 (2010-0192). The rock quarry, showing the cars back on the track. Two rock drills used in quarry shown above shovel, Aug. 23, 1913 -- view 3 (2010-0193). Cars off the track in rock quarry. One car tipped over by eccentric loading, almost carried the entire train with it. Cars back on track in two hours. Aug. 20,1913 -- view 4 (2010-0199). Rock quarry, Sept. 1, 1913 -- view 5 (2010-0203). Rock quarry, Sept. 1, 1913. Shows locomotive, construction cars, steam shovel. Album documents the building of Strawberry Dam between 1912 and 1916; dam was built at the site of an older Strawberry Dam on lower Strawberry Creek for Sierra and San Francisco Power Company by Willetts & Burr; also shows work on Philadelphia Ditch, a ditch and flume running from a point on South Fork of Stanislaus River 1 1/2 miles sw of town of Strawberry to Philadelphia Diggins (ditch bought by Power Company from Stockton Gravel Mining Co. in 1912); dam and ditch intended to supply water locally and electricity and power to markets as far as San Francisco.
Type
image
Format
Photographs. Nonprojected graphic
Extent
5 photographic prints ; 4 7/8 x 6 1/4 in. or smaller.
Identifier
(C)001433305CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
Sierra and San Francisco Power Company--Photographs Dam construction--California--Tuolumne County Quarrying--California--Tuolumne County Steam shovels Railroads--California--Tuolumne County Drilling & boring machinery Railroad accidents--California--Tuolumne County Waterworks--California--San Francisco Strawberry Dam (Calif.)--Photographs Tuolumne County (Calif.)--Photographs Photographic prints Photograph albums
Place
California Tuolumne County San Francisco Strawberry Dam (Calif.) Tuolumne County (Calif.)
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